croissant

Summary

croissant ranks in the top 0.7% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,706 views/month, #541 of 77,819).^[1]

Key Facts

• croissant's image is recorded as Croissants au beurre (18953292873).jpg^[2].
• crescent is named after croissant^[3].
• croissant's made from material is recorded as puff pastry^[4].
• croissant's made from material is recorded as butter^[5].
• croissant's GND ID is recorded as 1026171644^[6].
• croissant's subclass of is recorded as viennoiserie^[7].
• croissant's subclass of is recorded as pastry^[8].
• croissant's Commons category is recorded as Croissants^[9].
• croissant's Unicode character is recorded as 🥐^[10].
• croissant's country of origin is recorded as France^[11].
• croissant's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 78325^[12].
• croissant's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/015wgc^[13].
• croissant's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0095059^[14].
• croissant's National Library of Latvia ID is recorded as 000306746^[15].
• croissant's partially coincident with is recorded as brioche^[16].
• croissant's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/croissant^[17].
• croissant's shape is recorded as crescent^[18].
• croissant's BBC Things ID is recorded as c0813c20-cc1f-4bf0-82b1-24ad5d8ecbe1^[19].
• croissant's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'croissant'}^[20].
• croissant's Open Food Facts food category ID is recorded as croissants^[21].
• croissant's hashtag is recorded as croissant^[22].
• croissant's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00023751n^[23].
• croissant's sectional view is recorded as Croissant, cross section.jpg^[24].
• croissant's label in sign language is recorded as Croissant Nm 1 1 1 - Elix.webm^[25].
• croissant's NE.se ID is recorded as croissant^[26].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for croissant include Cronut^[27]; cruffin^[28], a type of food or dish^[29], in Australia^[30]; and Café du Croissant^[31], a café^[32], in France^[33].

Why It Matters

croissant ranks in the top 0.7% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,706 views/month, #541 of 77,819).^[1] croissant has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[34] croissant is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[35]

Entities named for croissant include Cronut^[27]; cruffin^[28], a type of food or dish^[29], in Australia^[30]; and Café du Croissant^[31], a café^[32], in France^[33].